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After the photographer moved to New York, Warhol hired him to work for Interview magazine. At the center of it was photographer David LaChapelle.
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When LaChapelle arrived in New York at age 15 as a high-school runaway from suburban Connecticut, where he was bullied for being gay, he got a job busing tables at Studio LaChapelle went on to become the last person to take a portrait of Warhol, in , posing him in front of a shelf of Holy Bibles. Loading next story… No more stories to load; check out The Study. Developing images using contaminated water or printing them on expired photo paper are just a couple of ways today's talents are putting their own spin on tradition.
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LaChapelle organized the show in collaboration with the curatorial staff of the Stockholm-based photography museum, which opened this Manhattan outpost three years ago. It was one of the first times a major brand showed homosexuality in an ad campaign. Pin Share Tweet Email. The Manhattan branch of the Stockholm photography museum has devoted its entire space to the artist's high-gloss, high-impact — and surprisingly political — works.
That other artist with the gimlet eye who fixated on celebrity and religion — Andy Warhol — is never far away here.
LaChapelle has long been known for hand coloring negatives and other analog tricks of the trade. Since buying property in Maui and moving there in , LaChapelle has expanded his practice from celebrity photography to works with an environmental message, even as he continues to explore New Testament themes. It weaves its way into nearly every image, from the fleeting beauty of his celebrities and the apocalyptic scenes of consumerism and greed gone awry to his fixation on religious imagery and his environmental activism, represented most conspicuously by his series of glowing gas stations in the Hawaiian jungle.
He catapulted Paris Hilton into households via the pages of Vanity Fair in Dozens of celebrities — from Pamela Anderson , Naomi Campbell and Kim Kardashian to Eminem and Tupac Shakur — posed for him in the nude or close to it in meticulously staged images. Browse work by David LaChapelle on 1stDibs. Alongside some of his most notorious commercial images and videos , we see his large body of personal works — photographs he has produced since ditching the Hollywood and Madison Avenue rat race in and relocating to rural Maui, where he still lives.
LaChapelle went on to take the final portrait of Warhol , the image at left. To be photographed by LaChapelle was a rite of passage for many stars. The work of Andy Warhol has had a major impact on LaChapelle.
Even with destruction and darkness simmering beneath his seductive images, LaChapelle always seems to leave room for optimism. The influential photographer is credited with all kinds of pop culture firsts. His embrace of Catholic imagery often feels equally art historical and biblical. When he left commercial photography, the big-budget editorial spreads and ad campaigns gave way to massive tableaux requiring no less work.
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Even more daring is his insertion of religion into the pop culture discourse in the service of social justice. With his eye for spectacular image making, his wild imagination and his fearless disregard for taboos, he gave celebrities an exuberant and daring new edginess, casting stars and supermodels in hedonistic dramas that played out in the pages of glossy magazines.
Naked figures struggle to survive as immense floods destroy a variety of built environments, including a cathedral, a contemporary-art museum and Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip. He still designs and creates sets, casts models and choreographs all those often nude bodies, later finessing the technical aspects of the production process.